How BT defeated the hackers

THE new data centre's predecessor in Cardiff was able to defeat an estimated 50 million attempts to hack into the Commonwealth Games website when the games were held in Manchester last year, said Mr Jones.

THE new data centre's predecessor in Cardiff was able to defeat an estimated 50 million attempts to hack into the Commonwealth Games website when the games were held in Manchester last year, said Mr Jones.

"Hackers regard getting through firewalls as a challenge. A case study demonstrated how the official Games website was getting 200 million hits a day. The site was updated more than 200 times a day with live results and 1,500 news stories. It was under constant surveillance by BT's web services team and despite 50 million attempts to hack into it, no breach of security occurred at any time.

"Fifteen dedicated servers were formed into a secure platform and connected to the internet via the data centre's high bandwidth links to the BT-Net backbone. There was no loss of service."